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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A political unit consisting of an autonomous state inhabited predominantly by a people sharing a common culture, history, and language.

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  • noun A political entity (a state) associated with a particular cultural entity (a nation) and a sovereign territorial unit.

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